Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-25
SPARE RIBS.
8 Mental Vision OF Hog

To the Editor % The Eagle
Dold is coming, What percentage OF
our people realize the far reaching mn
port of these words. as sealing, even be-
yond the chronic pressimist, the great
future of our wonderful city. bold Is
coming, And when he has come, when
the last nail has been driven IN our
pioneer pig sticking plant: when the
boiler has been fired, the skeptic will
discover that Dold has come here TO
slaughter hogs and then he will have no
trouble in securing all the hogs he cares
10 slaughter
There are 100 cents in the Dold dollar
and it will buy as much healthy hog as
the Kansas City or any other dollar. and
it will itch the farmers palm as well.
From a point equi distant between
Wichita and Kansas City. the two cities
will be on about equal terms, but there
is not mile of the empire TO the west,
northwest and southwest Of the dividing
line but what belongs to and Will be CON
trolled by Wichita. The farmer knows
no interest beyond his pocket, and when
Dold offers his big round dollars. the
farmer will hand over his big round hogs.
Trip five years INTO the future and note
the changes wrought by the hog. The
farmer who has been sending his corn TO
market now feeds it To his stock.
y near. liberal market and quick re-
turns in connection with the advantages
afforded by proximity TO the great cattle
ranges. has stimulated stock raising, and
every acre of tributary farm land has in
creased in value in sympathy.
As long as Dold is Dold no power on
earth can prevent his securing a supply
at Wichita. Hog product is a staple the
world over. The hog is arbitrary in this
regard. Every morning finds him quoted
in the markets of the world With tine
start Wichita already has as a railroad
center she has no competitor in Kansas.
and Mr.. Dold III Wichita will have an
advantage in the territory tributary to
our city which the combined influences
of the interests opposed to us cannot
overcome. The more staple the hog the
greater the advantage which Dold will
know how to WELD sThat is why Dold is
here. and because bold, the pioneer. is
here. his brother packers sooner or later
will follow to be III a position to compete.
They will follow sooner if they are wise:
they will follow later if they wait until
they are forced to come: but follow they
will, for as we have said. the hog is an
arbitrary product of civilization.
After Dold will follow. in rapid success
sion, a long train of diversified interests
such as are the inseparabe effect OF such
a cause New retail wholesale and
manufacturing establishments. requiring
new dwellings,. stores, warehouses and
factory buildings-ncw railroads to divide
the spoils. new banks To accommodate
the new business. new capital seeking
profitable and above all sure investment,
increased immigration to our farm lands
all these for Wichita these sealed
bv the hog which Dold IS going 10 stick
Who will be short-sighted enough To
maintain. in the face of all the facts
that the railroads will refuse to recognize
our city for what it is worth? No demand
resting on such a foundation as ours has
in this country. ever failed of satisfac-
ton. Railroads are but individuals and
as such are but human and being human,
have an eve to business. Demand and
supply. together with the question Of
self preservation, that great first law of
all things that are, will regulate the tariff
sheet Of the roads which Will carry our
commerCe-Of the roads which viii carry
it both wayS-Of the roads which viii
carry the live hogs one way and the cold
ham and salt poak the other way Dold
is coming, and the hog Is an arbitrary
product; the railroads know it,
Wichita is the railroad center of Kan
sas and always will be. We have not.
of late. seen the man who had the
nerve to dispute this proposition.
No new railroad of any import
ance that Will build III this state
can afford 10 ignore Wichita. In this
regard our city stands today alone IN
Kansas, and even a no new road can
afford to pass Us by, 50 cannot any new
enterprise of magnitude which has
Kansas for its base OF operations afford
to tie to any other cit, In the state bat
our own.
Finally. when Cincinnati was a pack
ing center she could boast Of being a
city when She delighted in the sobri-
quet of .PorkopoIis.' she was IN truth
the Queen City Of the West. With
her departing hog faded her commercial
glory. When the hog star Of Chicago
arose in the heavens lis lu-trc drew 10 It
the ewes Of a world, and 1T was and l.
the hog which has been the prime factor
in the developement of Kansas City.
Point your finger 20 a packing center
and YOU point It at a city. You cannot
separate the hog from the clearing
house.
DOld is coming! and after him comes
2 newer. stronger, healthier. greater
metropolis The hog star Of Wichita
has appeared IN the armament; 1t IS dc--
tined to shine for the glory of orr city
and state: and when the smell Of tho
first Of Dold's dead hogs viii have
reached you. it VIII penetrate through
YOUR clearing house t. the commercial
exchanges Of our country.
bold Is coming and with him the
hog, which seals the future Of wichita.
PIG STICKER.
i BCRSTED BOON
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